Books/multimedia to teach Hawaiian/swing/rock?

John McClung · From: Olympia WA, USA

I'd like some expert advice on teaching non-pedal steel guitar, a new direction for me.

I anticipate getting students interested in 3 types of music: Hawaiian; western swing; and fuzztone rock and blues.

What books/DVD's/tapes would you recommend for using to teach those 3 styles of music? I imagine most students will walk in with 6-string laps, but already I have one new student with an 8-string.

Thanks in advance!

(Sorry if this has been asked before, but the forum's lame search function makes it very hard to ask a broad question like this without a gazillion irrelevant hits. A link to the answers would be just fine).
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Edward Meisse · From: Santa Rosa, California, USA

I have recently bought a pedal guitar. I have found that many of the Materials for C6 single string playing on a pedal guitar translate very well to non pedal provided you adopt the 8 string tuning (D-E-C-A-G-E-C-A). This includes some of Jeff Newman's C6 stuff, although you do have to wade through the mostly pedal oriented stuff, as well as Basic C6 by Buddy Emmons. In the thread in the pedal steel section called C6...will I ever learn, there is a link to some instruction by Buddy Emmons on pockets. This stuff, of course, is great for western swing. I understand it's the kind of stuff Paul Franklin uses for rock. And I don't see any reason why it wouldn't be good for Hawaiian as well. Great stuff.
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Ray Shakeshaft · From: Kidderminster, Worcs, UK.

Hi John,

I highly recommend Greg Cutshaw's web site. In my opinion Greg is one of the heros of this business and I have learned more from his free tabs and advice than anyone.

http://www.gregcutshaw.com/

Edit. I apologise. I have just gone on to Greg's website and it no longer contains the C6 non pedal material that used to be there which would have been ideal for you. I would suggest contacting Greg because he probably still has it.

Stephen Abruzzo · From: Philly, PA

www.georgeboards.com has a bunch of DVDs out that cover everything from the BASICS to Hank Sr to overdriven blues/rock...all of it in C6.

Don Kona Woods · From: Hawaiian Kama'aina

Lorene Ruymar has developed an instruction course for the Hawaiian Steel Guitar. It teaches notation and music theory to the absolute beginner. It takes a year for the average student to complete. It is based on the A Major low bass tuning, which is best for understanding chord construction and prepares the student to switch to a more complex professional tuning later, if desired.

‘Learn To Play Steel Guitar Hawaiian Style’

This is a comprehensive instruction course teaching the art of Hawaiian Steel Guitar Playing, with no previous music experience required. The package consists of two DVD’s & 237 pages which fill a 3 Ring Binder, teaching you how to play the steel guitar utilizing the standard music staff & notes.

This course uses the very earliest (& easiest) tuning…the A Major Low Bass, strings 1-6 tuned E-C#-A-E-A-E.

The course is structured such that each chapter contains one of the 30 lessons included, written progressively.

Some examples of the 30 lesson titles include:

Lesson # 1, Notation

Lesson # 2, Timing

Lesson # 10, Major Chords

Lesson # 17, Key of A, Circle of Fifths

Lesson # 21, Minor Scales, Minor Keys, Relative Minors

Lesson # 25, Different Tunings, & What’s Good About Them

Lesson # 30, Graduation Day

Lorene comes with an abundance of experience…being the founder of The Hawaiian Steel Guitar Association, classroom music specialist and band director, Vancouver School Board, 18 yrs, University of British Columbia. Her steel guitar instructor is the great Jerry Byrd.

If you desire to learn Hawaiian Style Steel Guitar, &/or learn how to read music playing the steel guitar, then I suggest you consider this course.

3 Ring Binder, 237 Pages,

w/2 DVD’s $125.00 CAD

(Note: DVD’s are Dual-Layer, so may not work on older DVD players)

John McClung · From: Olympia WA, USA

Garry Vanderlinde · From: CA

DeWitt Scott's "Basic C6th Nonpedal Lap Steel Method" book by Mel Bay is hard to beat for beginners or intermediates. It's cheap, readily available and covers a variety of material and exercises...at least for Country and Hawaiian, for fuzz R&R you're on your own. Winking

John McClung · From: Olympia WA, USA

I'm hoping to find a book that doesn't dwell so much on learning reading standard notation, but is designed for players who want to quickly know where basic chords, grips, scales are located, plus info on correct bar slanting technique, and then a few songs.

I also do want it just on C6, maybe A6, but ideally C6 so it transfers right away to a double neck steel.

I know all this stuff is available, but again you just about have to buy a collection of resources and cherry pick what the student wants from each one, kind of a pain, for both teacher and student

Which is why I write my own curriculum for teaching E9!

The prospective student and I have agreed that the kind of material he wants to learn is like the 5 Hawaiian songs in Scotty's great course, "St. Louis Blues."
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Billy Tonnesen · From: R.I.P., Buena Park, California

I still have four intruction books from the National Institute of Music & Arts school )NIOMA) that taught me how to play back around 1940. If you have any interest and are in the neighborhood of Buena Park I will show them to you and if you can use them you can have them. Let me know on E-Mail.

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